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Ginger Cookies

From The Monmouth Baptist ladies' cook book, 1907

Serves 24

Presented as published in 1907. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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This recipe was extracted from The Monmouth Baptist ladies' cook book (1907) by Marian B. Sexton, page 95. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

GINGER COOKIES. Miss Lizzie Butler. One cup sugar, one cup molasses, one cup shorten- ing (lard and butter), one teaspoon soda, one teaspoon cinnamon, one-half teaspoon ginger and a little nut- meg. Flavor with vanilla. Mix sugar, molasses and shortening together, add spices and flavoring, pour one-half teacup of boiling water over soda and stir well. Thicken with flour

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